May 03 2013
Now that my gorgeous 15″ MacBook Pro with Retina Display is safely back in my custody, I can finally bring myself to tell the tale of its recent and unnecessarily lengthy stay in the local Mac Hospital. It all began one Tuesday evening early last month. I am always very careful about NOT setting beverages …
Mar 24 2013
Evidently my adopted home city of Malmö, Sweden has won another award for being “bike friendly”, which does not surprise me at all. The video infomercial about it below is a bit long, but the voice-over is in English and it does provide a pretty comprehensive view of Sweden’s third largest city … which any …
Mar 20 2013
Sweden has this charming Easter tradition of decorating doorways and storefronts with bundles of thin wooden branches festooned in multi-colored feathers. I’m not sure how far in advance of the holiday it starts, but I noticed them for the first time (this season, anyway) last weekend. Most years, the appearance of these feathers would be …
Feb 26 2013
Enjoy this gorgeous time-lapse video of a year in a mid-western U.S. forest, which gets bonus points for having been filmed in my home state of Indiana.
Feb 10 2013
via shazzersurfing.net Based on the appearance of this weekend’s juice concoction, I was sure the Swede had been inspired by Dr. Seuss. (Either that, or she was just highly successful in trying to match the exact hue of of our green veggie cutting board.) But it turns out, Dr. Darling has never even heard of …
Jan 27 2013
via buzzfeed.com Because I have a thing for maps. And nakedness. Seriously, though, the Swede and I have talked about various ways to dial back our meat consumption this year. And though I can’t see either one of us ever choosing to abandon our carnivorous ways completely, we are both quite content to eat vegetarian …
Jan 25 2013
Turns out one of my favorite Norwegian delicacies, a slightly sweet, brown-colored whey cheese that Dr. Darling and I often consume on Digestive biscuits for Saturday morning breakfast, is highly flammable. Who knew? Certainly not the driver of a truck trailer transporting 20 tons of the stuff (known as “brunost” … literally “brown cheese“) in …
